The howler, the sleeper, the lover, the watcher are all childish names given to the odd shapes that grow from the roots and boughs of the great oaks that thrive on the last undeveloped woods of the Chace Cottage Resort. Kimberly Rodgers is convinced that her ordered life is settled, until her frugal fiance assures her that to keep her ancestral resort would mean financial ruin. Returning after ten years to make the sale, Kimberly finds that some times blood ties are not always skin deep but flow through the grain of the Watcher in the Oak as well. A flowing story of family, home and true love.